Events

New location open day.

After 6 successful years of being Melbourne’s most popular and respected woodworking and furniture design school, Handsome & Co has relocated to Yackandandah, Victoria. The experienced team at Handsome and Co are dedicated to instructing and fostering an enthusiasm for woodworking in our students. Our...

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Fringe Furniture 2018.

Fringe Furniture is an open access, boundary-pushing exhibition of cutting-edge design, held at the stunning Abbotsford Convent in September 2018. Notoriously playful and utterly surprising, check out these exciting images from Fringe Furniture...

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Fringe Furniture 31.

From the reassuringly practical to the confusingly obtuse, Fringe Furniture has seen it all. A boundary-pushing showcase of cutting-edge industrial design. This is no Ikea showroom (though you might still find something comfy to sit on). The team at Handsome & Co were very proud to...

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Veritas Downunder Tour

We were very pleased to host Vic Tesolin – Veritas expert and author of the ‘Minimalist Woodworker’ and Wally Wilson – Lee Valley senior manager, on there visit to Melbourne as part of the  Veritas demonstration tour. Vic Tesolin gave an engaging presentation and managed to...

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Alichia van Rhijn – Hearth Collective

We at Handsome & Co are very excited to welcome Alichia van Rhijn of Hearth collective to our team of talented tutors and crafts people.   Now working from her Central Victorian studio, this self-proclaimed maker of things and vintage lover spends her time handcrafting goods ranging from woodwork, ceramics and...

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Bespoke Skateboard Deck Workshop

Being a lord of Dogtown is one thing, but becoming a lord of the workshop is something else entirely. This was our very first bespoke skate deck workshop. We had eight student all eager and excited to craft their own custom skateboard or longboard. Over  the two three-hour sessions,...

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Wood Workshops: Material Value

ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Australian Design Review Physically creating something tangible to suit a purpose or fulfil a creative urge is a fundamental human yearning, one perhaps neglected in an era where our hands are occupied as an extension of touch screens and keyboards. In the smartphone age,...

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